BlueZ

It is now official that bluez-libs-3.36 and bluez-utils-3.36 were the last releases in the BlueZ 3.x series. Both repository are now in maintenance mode and only important security fixes will justify another release from the 3.x branch.

For the BlueZ 4.x series the repositories have been moved from SourceForge.net over to kernel.org and we are now using GIT for revision control. Also bluez-libs and bluez-utils have been merged back together into one common bluez.git repository.

The 4.x series brings two important changes. The first one is that the eglib support has been completely removed. This means that GLib now becomes a hard depedency. The second one is that we removed the old D-Bus and now fully concentrate on improving the new API and making the code simpler, cleaner and easy to read and understand.

We haven’t had time to move bluez-gnome over to the new D-Bus API. So if you wanna try bluez-4.x be warned that this will break.

Another version of the new obexd with a lot of fixes. Please start testing.

obexd-0.3.tar.gz

The merge window for the Linux 2.6.27 kernel opened just after the official release of 2.6.26 and on the Bluetooth side we have a big update pending to be merged. Most changes are security enhancements and full support for Simple Pairing from the Bluetooth 2.1 specification.

After an absence of two kernel release, I started to produce my -mh kernel patches again. And since we are moving a lot of the infrastructure to kernel.org these patches have their new home their, too. So have fun with it.

patch-2.6.26-mh1.gz

Due to some small fixes here and there and some pending patches, we have created another release of the 3.x series. It is nothing major, but all of them are nice to have things that slipped through the net for one reason or another.

bluez-libs-3.36.tar.gz
bluez-utils-3.36.tar.gz

Another version of the new obexd which fixes some issues and improves the FTP support. Please do intensive testing and report any issues.

obexd-0.2.tar.gz

The previous release contains a regression when using the service search or browse functions. Giving a friendly name like “opp” didn’t work anymore. Also the authorization framework was broken with disabled experimental support. Both issues should be fixed with this release.

bluez-libs-3.35.tar.gz
bluez-utils-3.35.tar.gz

This could be the final release of the BlueZ 3.x series. So please test it intensivly and report any problems via the mailing list or the IRC channel.

The obexd is an attempt to unify all current OBEX based servers for Linux and create a small, but powerful daemon. Please help testing the first version.

obexd-0.1.tar.gz

When switching to a plugin based infrastructure for the Bluetooth core daemon, parts of the service API became obsolete. This release now updates our GNOME applications to handle this change nicely.

bluez-gnome-0.27.tar.gz

The percentage of translation for this package is still pretty bad. Only a few languages have translated every string. If you have some free time and speak a foreign language, then please translate it.